photo: Lisa Poole / AP "Please, please do what you can to cure the verbal virus that seems increasingly rampant among your generation."
DAVID MCCULLOUGH -
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, imploring Boston College's 2008 graduates to cut back on using words such as like, awesome and actually
-from TIME.com
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough has a suggestion for what young people can do for their countries. "Please, please do what you can to cure the verbal virus that seems increasingly rampant among your generation," McCullough implored Boston College's class of 2008 at commencement ceremonies. He said he is particularly troubled by the "relentless, wearisome use of words" such as like, awesome and actually. "Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually," he said. Graduates apparently thought his speech was, like, awesome. They gave him a standing ovation.
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